The Selecter announce new album & full scale tour

Ska legends The Selecter have announced their plans for a full tour and new album in 2015. The news comes while the band are still on tour with The Levellers.

‘Subculture’ is the band’s third album since reforming in 2010 and its release will be prefaced by a twenty two date UK tour taking in many towns and cities. A London date is to be held at Koko in Camden on March 27th.

Full details can be found in the below press release.

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FRANK TURNER – The Third Three Years

FT ThirdFrank Turner is one of those artists who just never stops working. If he’s not recording a new album, he’s touring.  If he’s not touring, he’s recording radio sessions.  If he’s not recording radio sessions, he’s touring.  If he’s not touring, he’s recording extra material for b-sides or stand-alone EPs.  It’s no wonder that his solo career has spawned compilation discs of album length every three years.  This traditional taking stock resulted in a third compilation – predictably titled ‘The Third Three Years’ – in the autumn of 2014.  While this particular instalment of FT’s extra-curricular recordings is, perhaps, a little more reliant on covers and live/session material than the previous two anthologies, the twenty one track disc brings plenty of enjoyable material for the Turner fan.

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New video from The House Of Capricorn

Kiwi Stoner rock/metal band The House Of Capricorn have a new album ‘Morning Star Rise’ released on December 1st via Svart Records (home of the mighty Witch Mountain).

Before the release of the album, you can enjoy this atmospheric and grainy video clip (directed and edited by Amber Beaton at Villiantime) for the lead single ‘The Only Star In The Sky’.

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FIVE YEARS: What a surprise… (An anniversary editorial)

5This weekend, Real Gone reaches a special milestone – five years of internet presence.  As that famous musical philosopher Mr. David Bowie once sang: “Five years…what a surprise.”  It’s been a really hard road to get so far, but it’s certainly been rewarding – over the recent years, we’ve met a bunch of really great people and heard some amazing music, a huge amount of which might have passed under our radar if we weren’t constantly reviewing stuff.  Who knows…maybe some of those albums would have passed under your radar too?

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